Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 672: Immortal?
As the dissection process progressed, even Ke Lan, who originally activated "Mewtwo" for a different purpose, was deeply attracted - his intuition told him that the secret hidden in this "monster corpse" might be just as important as that of the strange nameless island.
Why did "humans" exist on Alpha before the Ark landed on it? Could this woman really be the "material" that was brought to the surface of Alpha by the advance team for some secret experiments? Then she escaped by chance, and in the night when the temperature could drop to minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, she walked through the frozen tundra and entered this strange ruins?
Then, she lived in this dark and lightless ruins for more than ten years or even decades?
Not only did the members of the 776 Special Forces Team find it ridiculous, even Ke Lan couldn't believe such a thing.
What's more, when passing through the crack just now, other noises were heard from above... This means that there are other moving things in this relic.
First of all, we have to rule out the possibility that this "humanoid monster" is an indigenous creature that can prey on it. Otherwise, given the monster's ability to move, it would have already become the excrement of the indigenous creatures... Then there are only two possibilities left.
One is that it is some kind of smaller and weaker indigenous creature. This humanoid monster survives by preying on these indigenous creatures living in the ruins.
2. The same kind of humanoid monsters.
If it is the second case, then how did the other "humanoid monsters" get into this relic?
Ke Lan really wanted to remind Liao Xing to cut open the monster's stomach and intestines first to check what the monster usually eats, but in the "mew dream" state he couldn't open his mouth at all and could only watch the plot proceed along the predetermined trajectory.
Liao Xing scraped a lot of bone powder from the monster's pubic bone, and then he poked and scratched the bone surface with a blade for a long time before he raised his head and said to everyone with a serious face: "The age of this monster...I'm afraid it's more than 400 years old."
Just now, Liao Xing firmly believed that this monster was a "human", but now, he used the word "monster".
It is impossible for a human being to live 400 years.
Even if its appearance and internal structure are similar to humans, it is still not the same species as humans.
Four hundred years old? Could this person be a member of the Undead Crew? Ke Lan was shocked... If "she" was a member of the Undead Crew, then why was she here?
Was he exiled because he committed some serious crime?
However, the bodies of the Undead Crew members should be preserved in a device called the "Coffin of Eternal Life". After leaving the "Coffin of Eternal Life", their bodies will quickly age and die. Otherwise, they can only transform themselves into inhuman monsters like the previous "Pope" Chiron...
"Yeah." Sergeant Ken nodded.
If we regard "it" as a monster rather than a human being, the age of four hundred years does not seem so difficult to accept.
"There's one more thing." Liao Xing said again.
"explain."
"Although its reproductive organs have been severely degraded, judging from the shape of its pelvis, it has had childbearing experience." Liao Xing said, and exhaled a long breath. A layer of white mist suddenly covered the full-face mask, which then quickly dissipated.
Sergeant Ken was silent for two seconds before he said, "Go on."
"There are two possibilities. One is that the creature had given birth to cubs before entering the ruins. The second possibility is that it became pregnant and gave birth to the fetus in the ruins... If it is the latter, regardless of whether the fetus it gave birth to survives, there should be at least one male humanoid monster in the ruins." Liao Xing said.
"Doctor Liao, you mean, those voices above our heads when we were passing through the rift just now..." Collins asked.
"There is a third possibility, but the probability is very low... This monster came here while pregnant, gave birth to a fetus, and the fetus survived." Liao Xing exhaled again, "In any case, there is a high probability that there are still similar humanoid monsters in this ruins."
"It's not a big problem." Sergeant Ken narrowed his eyes. "This kind of monster is not very aggressive. Although it is stronger than ordinary people, its defense is very weak. It can't stop knives and bullets. If we have sufficient vision and ammunition, no matter how many of them there are, they can't pose a threat to us."
After saying that, Sergeant Ken glanced at his watch and said, "There are still eight minutes left. You can use them for the last time. If there is nothing more valuable to discover, we will move on."
"I want to perform a craniotomy." Liao Xing said, taking out a small electric saw from the medical bag.
The 776 Special Forces Team certainly wouldn't carry an electric saw specifically used for dissection and craniotomy. This electric saw is actually a multi-purpose tool. Its main function is not to saw people, but to save people when, for example, a vehicle is damaged or overturned and someone is stuck inside with deformed metal parts or pierced by steel pipes... Of course, in an emergency, this saw can also be used for amputation surgery.
Although the precision is not as good as that of special tools, it is the only thing we can do in this case.
First, he cut off the scalp with a scalpel , then Liao Xing started the electric saw, placed the saw blade on the edge of the crown of the head, and pushed it down little by little.
A hole was soon opened on the top of the corpse's skull, revealing the brain tissue inside.
"The brain has shrunk severely... but other than that, there is nothing abnormal." Liao Xing simply reached in with tweezers and stirred it a few times before letting go.
"Dr. Liao...why do you sound a little disappointed?" Collins asked.
"I originally wanted to see if there would be symptoms similar to mad cow disease in its brain," said Liao Xing.
“Mad cow disease?”
"It's called human prion disease. The brain of a person with this disease will become like a rotten sponge with thousands of holes. In the old era, this disease was very common in some primitive cannibal tribes."
"Do you suspect that it eats humans... No, it feeds on eating its own kind?" Collins asked.
"But now this speculation can basically be ruled out."
Listening to the conversation between the two, Ke Lan, who was in a God's perspective, was almost getting anxious - if you wanted to know what this monster eats for a living, why don't you just dissect its digestive organs? Why bother to go through the trouble of opening its skull!
This is simply missing the point...
